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More flowers, less lawn, happy people, happy pollinators!

Would you like to add more flowers to your home?  Would you like to learn more about gardening and nature? Would you like to help birds, butterflies, and pollinators? Join West Vincent’s new Pollinator Pitstop Program!

What’s a Pollinator Pitstop? Butterflies, hummingbirds, and other native pollinators don’t stay put – they move around.  Monarchs and hummingbirds migrate large distances spring and fall, but they also move around during the summer.  One garden full of flowers isn’t enough – they need flowers everywhere!

Pollinator Pitstops are small, easy-to-care-for gardens planted with native flowers chosen for their beauty and their ability to help our struggling species of native pollinators.  Native pollinators are declining at an alarming rate. Eastern monarch butterfly populations have declined by more than 80% over the past two decades. While Monarchs are the face of the wildlife extinction crisis - where even once common species could now disappear – the fuzzy American bumblebee is also in trouble.  It has disappeared completely from 8 states, including our New England states; in New York, bumblebee populations are down by over 90%.

But we can help!  If enough people begin to plant native flowers while limiting pesticide use, we can reverse this negative trend.

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